Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has undertaken a campaign at hostels to make girls aware about ways to tackle possible sexual assault by relatives during summer vacation, a senior official said. The drive, which started last week and ended Monday, was undertaken in around 5,800 hostels, targeting over 2.5 lakh girls, most of whom left for home Tuesday...

A short video of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is being shared where he can be heard speaking against his party. What does Kharge say?: He says, "Congress party is dividing the country, It is dividing it in the name of caste." What is the context?: Congress has vehemently advocated for a caste-based census in the country and fired up the Bharatiya Janata...

Fact-Check The Verdict: False The text has been copied from a user comment posted under a 2009 article by the daily. Claim ID: adec874a What is the claim? Kiran Bedi, a former police officer and former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, on May 5, 2024, shared a post on her official X (formerly Twitter) account. She claimed that the message...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal failed to get any relief from the Supreme Court Tuesday, with a two-judge bench rising without pronouncing an order on granting him interim bail to enable him to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections. Kejriwal has been accused of money laundering in a case linked to the alleged Delhi excise...

Bengaluru: JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy has claimed that 25,000 pen drives with videos of women being sexually abused allegedly by his nephew, Lok Sabha election candidate Prajwal Revanna, were distributed before polls, and accused Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar of a conspiracy. The former chief minister also sought to discredit the Special Investigation...

Bengaluru: JD(S) MLA HD Revanna, who is in the custody of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), Tuesday failed to get relief from the Special Court for Elected Representatives here, which adjourned his bail plea hearing to Wednesday. The 66-year-old former Minister was arrested by the SIT Saturday in an alleged case of abduction of a woman and...

New Delhi: Polling for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections began in 93 constituencies spread over 11 states and Union Territories Tuesday. The voting which started at 7am will continue till 6pm. Over 1,300 candidates, including around 120 women, are in the fray in the third phase. Among the bigwigs are Union ministers Shah (Gandhinagar),...

New Delhi: Terming the alleged recruitment scam in West Bengal ‘systemic fraud’, the Supreme Court Tuesday said authorities were duty-bound to maintain the digitised records pertaining to the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the...

New Delhi: After being scrubbed two hours before launch, Boeing now aims to launch the Starliner’s first crewed mission May 10, it said Tuesday. The liftoff, targeted for 10:34 pm ET(0234 UTC May 7) May 7, was stalled due to a valve issue on the upper stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. “The next...

New Delhi: Prominent celebrities, including filmmaker Karan Johar, actors Sidharth Malhotra, Ranbir Kapoor, and Vikrant Massey, have urged their fans to vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Johar Monday evening shared a video on his Instagram page, in which the celebrities asked their followers to exercise their franchise in the ongoing polls. "Now that we have...